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CS 30 & CS 31 – Basic Chainsaw Maintenance, Cross Cutting and felling Small Trees
This course is for novice operators with little or no experience of chainsaw use, who are required to operate chainsaws for both cross cutting and felling trees with a diameter at felling height between 200 and 380mm. This course prepares the candidates to take an assessment for NPTC CS Units 30.1. 30.2 & 31
Course Overview
This 5 day practical course will enable candidates to successfully identify the necessary protective clothing required, and locate the various standards marks.
Aspects of Health and Safety surrounding Chainsaw operation, maintenance and performance are covered. The candidate will clearly understand the corrective action to take should a problem arise such as removing a trapped saw from the log. All start procedures and pre-start checks are identified along with ensuring the correct stance/grip is applied during use. This course will also enable candidates to correctly assess the situation prior to free felling a straight open grown tree. This is done with the aid of wedges and /or a felling lever. Candidates will be successful in removing tree limbs, cross cutting and safely stacking timber. As always the candidate will have the ability to identify potential hazards and stresses and select the appropriate technique to assess and deal with timber in compression or tension. They will also take down hung up trees and be able to recognise situations where specialist help is required.
Duration: 5 Days – Practical, 1 Day – Assessment
Costs including VAT and Registrations: £756.49 per person.
You can complete this as two separate courses CS 30 & CS 31.
Courses that follow on from CS 30 & CS 31 combined course:
CS 32 – Fell & Process Trees Over 38mm in diameter
CS 38 – Climb Trees & Perform Aerial Rescue
CS 39 – Operate a Chainsaw from a Rope & Harness
CS 42 – Carry out Stump Protection Using Stump Protection Fluids by Simple Hand Held Equipment
CS 43 – Fell Utility Poles
CS 45 – Arboricultural Ground Worker
CS 46 – Re-Pollard Trees at a Maximum Height of 5 meters
CS 47 – Operate Chainsaw from a MEWP – You must already hold a MEWP award to do this.
CS 48 – Powered Pole Pruners
CS 50 – Damaged Tree Techniques
